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    Sarah’S Journey of Faith: Volume 1: Life and Conversion—A Thirty-Day Devotional
    Sarah’S Journey of Faith: Volume 1: Life and Conversion—A Thirty-Day Devotional
    Sarah’S Journey of Faith: Volume 1: Life and Conversion—A Thirty-Day Devotional
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    Sarah’S Journey of Faith: Volume 1: Life and Conversion—A Thirty-Day Devotional

    By Sarah Liu

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    Life abounds with crises, disappointments, mundane routines, and some very joyful moments. Everything that happens has a cause. We often dont take time to reflect on purposes, or we simply explain events away with simplistic explanations of either good or bad luck. Totally unaware of real causes behind life events, we easily move on to the next day, the next week, and the next year.

    In a gentle way, Sarah Liu leads the reader on a walk through events from her childhood in China and shows the handprint of God on these vignettes of her life. As she reflects on what God accomplished through joys, crises, disappointments, and ordinary family life, she invites readers to reflect on their own life experiences to detect the hand of God. Her conviction that God selects and covers with grace regardless of mans perceptions runs throughout her stories and provides encouragement and inspiring faith and trust.

    This book provides encouragement for anyone praying for a loved one to come to God, but also provides rich inspiration for those with pressing questions about the meaning and purpose of lifes crises and disappointments. Parents, pastors, ministers, teachers, and leaders would be inspired by this devotional written from a genuine passion to explore Gods present action in lifes daily events.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWestBow Press
    Release dateMar 25, 2014
    ISBN9781490826202
    Sarah’S Journey of Faith: Volume 1: Life and Conversion—A Thirty-Day Devotional
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    Sarah Liu

    Not long after Sarah Liu’s escape from China in 2005, she—with the guidance of China Aid Association—was ushered before a United States Congressional committee investigating Human Rights abuses in China. Immediately afterwards, she traveled with the China Aid Association to testify before the United Nations Human Rights Commission on the abuses of the Chinese government. Al Jazeera (Middle East News Agency) sent a documentary team to Sarah Liu to participate in the video production of Slavery: A 21st Century Evil, Prison Slaves Sarah is a popular conference speaker with Voice of the Martyrs and continues to travel, telling the story of our sisters and brothers who still suffer under the oppressive hand of the Chinese Communist Party. The story does not end with oppression, but with the God, who is present in the darkest recesses of a fallen down world, to deliver His people from their bondage.

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      Sarah’S Journey of Faith - Sarah Liu

      Copyright © 2014 Sarah Liu.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the publisher except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

      The Scripture quotations are taken from the New International Version © 1984 by the International Bible Society.

      WestBow Press books may be ordered through booksellers or by contacting:

      WestBow Press

      A Division of Thomas Nelson & Zondervan

      1663 Liberty Drive

      Bloomington, IN 47403

      www.westbowpress.com

      1 (866) 928-1240

      Because of the dynamic nature of the Internet, any web addresses or links contained in this book may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid. The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.

      Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Thinkstock are models, and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

      Certain stock imagery © Thinkstock.

      ISBN: 978-1-4908-2619-6 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4908-2621-9 (hc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4908-2620-2 (e)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2014902745

      WestBow Press rev. date: 03/18/2014

      Contents

      Preface

      Introduction

      Day 1— A Beautiful Legend or Something More?

      Day 2— I Was Born

      Day 3— A White Handkerchief

      Day 4— Sorry, Sarah, You Were Adopted

      Day 5— Forbidden Outhouse— a Child’s Curiosity

      Day 6— Ming Da! (Beyond Luck!) An Extraordinary Child

      Day 7— My Blue Sky

      Day 8— My Treasured Pencil Box

      Day 9— My Mom, Refusing to be Comforted

      Day 10— Given Away, Adopted by Another

      Day 11—Meimei Is Drowning!

      Day 12— A Placebo

      Day 13— Shattered Dreams and Irony

      Day 14—We Have No Money!

      Day 15— Impoverished and Possessed

      Day 16— Invited into Darkness

      Day 17— When Jesus Visited My Home

      Day 18— A Bitter Lot Came Home to Stay

      Day 19— Compelled to Complete Middle School

      Day 20— The First Day of High School

      Day 21— Life without a Dream

      Day 22— The Devil Is Real

      Day 23— Gray Hair—Black Hair

      Day 24— My Mother’s Prayer

      Day 25— Jesus Closing In on Me

      Day 26— When the Singing Stopped

      Day 27— I Challenged My Mom’s Lord

      Day 28— Invited to a Party!

      Day 29— My Conscience Awakened

      Day 30— I Surrendered All

      To my sisters and brothers around the world who are still suffering for Christ— theirs is the better resurrection!

      Others were tortured and refused to be released, so that they might gain a better resurrection.

      —Hebrews 11:35c

      Preface

      Do you have a book? This question often follows me wherever I speak. My answer is, No, I do not have anything published. I see disappointment on their faces, and I am saddened. They often say things like, I want to share your story with my church [or pastor or friend]. And I think that another opportunity to tell the story of God’s marvelous work in the life of the believer, persecuted or not, has been missed.

      I believe that Satan has two primary ways of silencing believers. The first way is to intimidate them into silence by censorship to persecution, and the second is to seduce them out of Christ’s way. Fear and pleasure become powerful temptations away from the Lord if we are not on guard.

      In China, Satan uses fear, but in America, he uses pleasure. Either way, the diabolical goal is the same … silence!

      I choose not to be silent, and I know neither do you. That’s why this particular devotional will be helpful. Together, as we travel this journey of faith, we will both be made stronger and emboldened to speak the Word of God as we should.

      Sarah Liu

      Los Angeles, California

      October 2012

      Introduction

      This book is not intended to be a formal theological text. Rather, it reflects my personal life experiences in China and my relationship

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